Those USB floppy drives generally use a "SCSI protocol over USB transport"
scheme (this is in fact the way the USB mass-storage standard works AFAIK, so
floppy drives aren't the only things that do this), so I would be VERY
suprised if there's any "standard" floppy drive in there that you could just
swap out for a different type.
J.C. Wren said:
> I wonder where the smarts are? If the controller is in the drive, you may be
> limited to the formats you can read. I.e., you may be stuck with whatever
> sectors per track and track counts that are supposed on "normal" PC drives.
> Perhaps someone should buy one of these and take it apart...
>
> --jc
>
> On Wednesday 10 December 2003 13:26 pm, chris wrote:
> > >I'm sure one can be built, but I've seen drives like these before (but for
> > >the Macintosh).
> >
> > I just saw a 3.5" USB drive this morning connected to a Dell. From the
> > looks of it, that is they way Dell was delivering the drive for that
> > computer (it was a tiny little tower like unit and had no floppy built
> > in).
> >
> > So they are available for more than just the Mac. I think the one I
> > bought for my father's iMac (so he can transfer pics from his Mavica
> > camera) was not Mac specific and was supported by Windows and Linux
> > according to the box (but the drive sucks, its PAINFULLY slow to copy
> > data, far slower than the USB bus so the speed isn't killed by that...
> > IIRC, its a "SanDisk" brand drive, but I could be wrong).
> >
> > -chris
> > <http://www.mythtech.net>
>
- Dan Wright
(dtwright_at_uiuc.edu)
(
http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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